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by brk 5y ago
In my industry/sector I led a sales team for a company that had a moderately successful exit, where a lot of similar companies ultimately failed. People often asked what the strategy was, and I said "I told a lot of customers NO&q
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by brk 5y ago
Generally speaking, yes. With RF there are a handful of encoding methods, but in very simple terms binary 1's and 0's correspond to the high/low peaks of the frequency. Higher frequencies can therefore transmit data faster be
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by brk 5y ago
LOL, it is almost painful to admit that the current systems may already be somewhat close to optimized in a number of ways.
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by brk 5y ago
To some degree that is a valid approach but the management overhead is simply not worth it to me. I don’t want to deal with having to ‘manage’ subscriptions and such on a month to month or recurring basis.
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by brk 5y ago
The competitive landscape for what is turning out to be the next evolution of in-home video content delivery is just making me realize that the content is not worth the hassle. I'm not going to replace a $100/mo CATV subscription
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by brk 5y ago
Buyers remorse is real, but usually less so in B2B sales. In most B2B sales that I have been involved in, you can summarize it down to a certain amount of budget, and a set of needs. If you can fill the needs within the budget, it's an
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by brk 5y ago
In sales there is a term "know when to stop selling", this story is kind of a variant of that. If you have acceptable terms worked out, stop "selling", stop trying to show or add more value to the deal. Close the deal yo
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by brk 5y ago
Not sure what you classify as expensive. I have this Proteus unit: https://www.fitnesszone.com/product/PROTEUS.html ~$1,500, and it calculates via the flywheel, not seat movement. Not sure how much distance I have on i
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by brk 5y ago
Maybe, I've never bought expensive art. But I know people who have, and I've sat around their kitchen surrounded by 10's of millions of dollars worth of art. It was mostly kept covered up from sunlight, but it was not in a wa
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by brk 5y ago
Not 100% true, FWIW. I've had scenarios, even recently, where our insurance offered two options: 1) Take it to an approved shop for a full repair 2) They send a check for the estimated repair value to me, and I do whatever I want, whi
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Camera Spying Violated Fourth Amendment, Colorado Supreme Court Rules(forbes.com)
26 points by brk 5y ago|9 comments
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by brk 5y ago
I suppose it depends on your definition of 'dead'. What percentage of devices are running OS/2 / ArcaOS? Is it's overall marketshare growing or shrinking? Many archaic systems are not truly dead, I know of things st
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by brk 5y ago
I think he means general availability of trucks and drivers. Not drivetrain components specifically.
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by brk 5y ago
Yes, exactly. Having read many IBM manuals from that era seeing a blank page without the "This page intentionally left blank." text is almost jarring in a way.
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by brk 5y ago
How come page 1-2 has nothing on it? Did it not get properly scanned? If only there was some way to know for sure if the page was supposed to be blank, and it wasn't a technical error.
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by brk 5y ago
Or sometimes more commonly, an AUTOEXEC.BAT that provided the user a menu for which "mode" they wanted to boot into. Imagine having to choose between loading mouse drivers, or loading sound drivers. Then when networking started to
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by brk 5y ago
An important characteristic of liquid fuels are that as you extract the energy from them you reduce the total weight. In particular for flight this helps increase overall range and efficiency. Batteries weigh the same full or depleted. So a
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by brk 5y ago
Thermal cameras absolutely suck for body temperature measurement. Those fever cameras are all security theater garbage.
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by brk 5y ago
>How do you know all of them were on autopilot? I don't, but statistically speaking, some of them likely were. Tesla has shipped about 1.6M units globally, with most of those in the US. Let conservatively estimate half of those stay
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by brk 5y ago
Probably "VC Cash". I've got a couple of the units and can say they are working well and very easy to interface with.
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by brk 5y ago
We just did a 1,500 mile round-trip journey to visit family. Because of the Tesla stuff, I was casually aware of roadside emergency vehicles moreso than usual. We passed 28 police/fire/emergency vehicles that were next to our trav
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by brk 5y ago
I heard it's tomorrow.
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by brk 5y ago
From TFA it sounds like it was not coincidence at all.
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by brk 5y ago
I think most financial advisors target people with no impulse control, spending the bulk of their income each month, with a measurable part of it on non-essentials. Those kinds of people can budget to some version of wealth (especially when
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by brk 5y ago
The version I heard was a farmer where high voltage lines were run through his property and to get back at the power company he buried a large coil of wire directly under the HV lines to power some of his house.
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by brk 5y ago
That's harsh. The author seems like the kind of genuinely curious hacky people we need more of. Abstractly, this is not a ground breaking accomplishment, sure, but it was a pretty nice writeup with some good notes on the methods he use
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by brk 5y ago
IME, it is sort of by design. I have worked for a number of companies developing forms of embedded products. It often felt like nobody really felt like the product was 'complete' until we were 8 or so major releases into things. S
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by brk 5y ago
The GoM gets pretty warm (I live on the water just off the GoM proper (Boca Ciega Bay)). Late summer temps in the upper 80s or low 90s are common. Our pool used to heat to 95 before the shade palms grew up. I Don think I can recall the surf
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by brk 5y ago
My question is: how is Tim so productive that he does roughly 160,000 people’s work, or 1/8th of Foxconn’s total workforce? [2] /s My question is: if Tim Cook didn't exist, would any of those Foxconn workers have jobs? My o
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by brk 5y ago
Around that time I was building "high end" PCs for friends and friends-of-friends. I remember the average price stayed around $2500, but the component availability iterated pretty quickly in terms of processor, HDD size/inte

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